Nutanix Private Cloud Disaster Recovery

Service Overview

Nutanix Private Cloud Disaster Recovery (DRaaS) is a Nutanix-powered platform that allows you to recover Nutanix hosted workloads on dedicated, enterprise-class hardware in the event of a disaster without the burden of maintaining the infrastructure. Expedient maintains the hardware platform, software updates, licensing, and ongoing maintenance as a managed service. Clients have full admin access to their virtual machines, along with the ability to perform many of the same operations as their on-premises Nutanix environment.

Support Summary

• Expedient-owned Nutanix Private Cloud as a Source

  • Expedient will configure discovery on private cloud instances, including:

    • Site Pairing to and from Expedient-owned private cloud instances

    • Configuration of Recovery Plans to orchestrate restoring protected VMs at a secondary location

    • Configuration of Protection Polices to automate the creation and replication of snapshots across all the clusters managed by Prism Central

      • Default – Async with a 3-day retention with Rollup selected. This will create 24 hourly snapshots, and 3 daily snapshots.

    • Assign categories to the VMs that should be protected to default Nutanix categories.

Protection Policies

Multiple policies can be configured. If you have tiered applications, for example, you could create a separate category (along with the appropriate VMs) and add it to a different stage

• Client-owned Nutanix Private Cloud as a Source

  • Ensure availability and health of Expedient-owned target site.

  • Monitor target-side Availability Zone connectivity

  • Assist in the DR configuration on client site.

    • Default guidance and best practices will be provided.

• DR Testing

  • Nutanix DR failover options are "Planned Failover", "Unplanned Failover", and "Test Failover".

  • Nutanix offers non-disruptive testing referred to as Validating a Recovery Plan, and an Unplanned Failover / Disruptive Test option.

    • Expedient will conduct DR testing on Expedient-owned Nutanix Private Cloud upon request.

    • Expedient will assist in DR testing for client-owned Nutanix source cluster upon request.

    • Clients may contact Expedient to schedule a test and at least one non-disruptive test is recommended near the end of the delivery phase.

More Information

Nutanix Private Cloud Service Overview